Iweb Domain Name problem

I bought a domain name for my site and I am having trouble getting my page to link to it. Anyone have any tips??? CompBiz ( the domain company) says the problem is getting the correct url to link to....
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

That is what I have for my first site with them, and that has worked for a year. I just created a new site for our Boy Scout troop. I have it linked FROM my joeneb.com site, and it works that way. However, when I linked that site to the name I bought (dillsburgtroop38.com) it does not work. The Compbiz people told me that is because there is a % in is url......
I don't know what to do...

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There are numerous posts about problems with iWeb understanding both your personal name domain with and without the www.prefix. After five days, 25 calls to both Apple and GoDaddy where I was getting much conflicting advice even within each organization, and I experienced many problems such as the site not being found and iWeb asking for password authorization whenever anyone visited the site. The good news is that I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
First, check that your Web site actually exists by going to http://web.mac.com/yourusername
If that works then you need to set up a forward in GoDaddy.
In GoDaddy's account manager, make sure that the forwarding address is set to http://web.mac.com/yourusername. This must be the same address that you just checked through your browser. (I also advise you to NOT USE the .ME designation that Apple is moving to. It's not solid yet. .MAC will work for a long time. It's web.mac.com/ that will work).
Then click on the Total DNS Control and MX Records link.
This is where my instructions that work differ from many other instructions, but heed my advice and you'll save a lot of time.
Look in the CNAMES area and make sure that the www host alias points to "@" and not to anything else such as "web.me.com" or "www.mac.com". If you don't have such an entry, then create one by clicking on the "add a new CNAME Record"button. Caution - if you don't use the "@" (at sign) here you WILL run into trouble where your custom domain name will only work WITHOUT a "www." prefix. (While this may not be a problem for your mac friends, most everyone using a PC will think they need to type in a "WWW." and that will cause a problem).
Then if you wish, you can also go back into your domain forwarding area and click on the masking tab and click to enable masking. This will make your url only show the short personal domain name rather than the very long iWeb mobile me URL appended with your personal domain name.
Confirm your entry, and then wait anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours or more for the tens of thousands of servers around the world to repopulate those instructions. I was able to see a change take place in minutes where my associate in another state didn't see the change for two hours. Don't worry, just wait.
If you do this, you should be able to then go to your Web site through either www.YourPersonalDomainName.com or YourPersonalDomainName.com
Good luck!

I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
Many people would not be interested in using url forwarding/masking as you suggest to solve this issue, since that makes it impossible to bookmark individual pages of your site. For those who do wish to set the www CNAME to web.mac.com, I think the problem can normally be solved by also setting the @ A Record to 17.250.248.34.

IWeb Domain Name Question, Please Help

I created an iWeb website hosted on my .Mac account.
I forwarded my personal domain name, so that the website uses the domain <www.JohnPositive.com>.
But once it gets to the site, the domain in the URL line changes to the long iWeb name of <www.johnpositive.com/jp/CASA.html>.
What's bad about this is that I have a nationwide ad coming out that advertises the webpage of my site <www.johnpositive.com/students>, but the problem is that .Mac doesn't recognize this site, because it's changed to the long iWeb name of <www.johnpositive.com/jp/students.html>.
How do I convert that URL back to a shorter URL, such as, <www.johnpositive.com/students>?
I appreciate anyone's help on this. Must I create a redirect page? Are there some settings I'm missing?
-Jan

the url instantly changes and is long.
This is the way CNAME pointing works with .Mac. If you like you can make things shorter by shortening the names you give your site and pages.
Your "url", namely what people need to type to get to your site, is of course just the short version. What appears in the browser address bar is really irrelevant, but if it matters a lot to you, then you can undo everything you did for CNAME and switch to ordinary url forwarding/masking. With that, for every page on your site only www.myname.com will appear in the browser address bar for every page.

IWeb - URL name problem

Quick facts: I have created a website on iWeb. I am going to host this site using Mobile Me. I have purchased a domain name on Go Daddy. I changed the CNAME on Go Daddy to web.me.com
On iWeb when I publish my site, it appears to publish just fine. The problem is that it duplicates the URL name. Instead of www.mydomain.com, it reads www.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com. When I navigate to www.mydomain.com, nothing comes up. But, when I type in www.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com, my website comes up.
Has anyone had this problem, and how have you resolved it? I am new to all of this, so if I have not used the proper terminology, please feel free to correct me. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!

Thank you for your response. This was somewhat helpful, and I did re-name the site as you suggested. However, I am still having the same problem in that if I simply type in www.mydomain.com, I cannot get to my page. I have to type www.mydomain.com/xyz in order to get to my page.
I have gone to Go Daddy to try to get it to forward from www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/xyz, but that does not appear to be working.

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So I have a site with iWeb. The full address is-
http://web.mac.com/neilbowman/GBFS/Graham_Bowman.html
I bought a domain name through yahoo-
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I set up the personal domain settings on mobile me
Then In the DNS settings the source to www.grahambowman.com
and the destination is web.me.com.
I was wanting my address to be www.grahambowman.com, but there's problems.
When you go to that address is ads on /iWebSiteName/PageName.html
I really wanted it to be simply, www.grahambowman.com and not have the other stuff on it.
Also when you type in just grahambowman.com with no www it gets you to a yahoo under construction page. I've looked around in forums but can't get this to work correctly. Help would be greatly appreciated.

You domain works as it should.
The other stuff are the pages in your site. Millions of websites have them.
It that disturbs you, use a [frameset|http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/frames/frameset.html].
In that case you do not need a Personal domain at MMeor CNAME.
Use URL forwarding with masking. You can manage it at your domain host. They provide the frameset.
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Iweb/Domain name question

Hi,
I am making my first Iweb site. I want to host the site through IWeb, but want to be sure I can use the simple domain name I own as the address, rather than a long www.mobileme.myname.domainname.com address. I see instructions involing setting up an alias on with the domain name provider, but wanted to ask around first.
Also, do you know if I can host more than one website through Iweb.
thanks for any and all help!
I have sent these questions to Apple support, but no response yet. I gather the new Iphone is taking up a lot of their tech support time.
Kim

the url instantly changes and is long.
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Your "url", namely what people need to type to get to your site, is of course just the short version. What appears in the browser address bar is really irrelevant, but if it matters a lot to you, then you can undo everything you did for CNAME and switch to ordinary url forwarding/masking. With that, for every page on your site only www.myname.com will appear in the browser address bar for every page.

Iweb domain names question

Can anyone explain how i can use .mac... iLife etc, to make a personalised Domain name...
so a name like http://web.mac.com/andrews_artcakes
can become
www.andrewscakes.com
(more professional)
I thought that the iweb2.0 allowed you to do this..
so was going to buy it - but i looks like i need to buy domains, and sort a link up!
its all new to me.. and i'd love a simple clean explanantion please.
If you can help, please post a reply asap...
Im using OSX leopard, iweb (old one)
Thanks
Andrew

You will need to buy a domain from someone like http://www.simply.com
They will allow you to forward from your domain so that andrewscakes.com will remain in the address bar while people navigate round your site (so individual pages won't be bookmarkable).
With the latest version of iWeb you can use 'Personal Domain' - forwarding with the pagenames: please see http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Domains.html

Iweb domain name

Hi,
When publishing a site with iWeb, I always get very long domain names like www.ostendbeach.be/OSTENDBEACH/index.html in my browser.
Can I choose to only see www.ostendbeach.be with no other referrals to sub-folders in my browser ?
Thanx, Jan

iWeb publishes a folder with the sitename. Like it or not.
Or read this :
http://blog.wyodor.net/2011/08/avoiding-then-iweb-sitename-in-url.html?m=0
(Ignore the spellng error)
I also recently noticed that 000webhost displays a nasty pop up on each page of the dailynes site. Well, that's the price I pay for "free".
It does not change the concept of avoiding the site name I describe. It works on most webservers.

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BC does NOT host your domain.
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Using a domain name email address with BT broadban...

We've just moved over to BT broadband after 17 years with Demon. I have three email addresses - [email protected] and name at mydomainname.co.uk etc - which I have now pointed to my new btinternet.com address, but after three days of chasing my own tail none of my email is arriving in my BT mailbox.
Our domain names are hosted by Freeparking. We don't have mailboxes there. The mail has previously been forwarded to our Demon account successfully - different domain names frowarding to different underlying demon addresses.
Freeparking indicates that it takes about ten minutes to propagate the forwarding change, so after three days i think I can say that I've given it every opportunity. I don't think the problem is with Freeparking's forwarding. I think it's with BT.
Now, the thing is, besides my three addresses which are not forwarding successfully, there's another domain name address (belonging to my husband) which IS forwarding successfully from Freeparking to BT, but this just happens to be the address we gave to BT as a contact email prior to the changeover from Demon.
My husband thinks this all may be something to do with grey-listing and that the reason the three domain names are not being accepted at BT is something to do with the fact that the addresses have not been verified as legitimate. Unfortunately it seems that the only way they can be verified as a legitimate address is by receiving and returning a verification mail from BT. Which is where our circular logic finally disappears up its own tail-feathers. We can't receive and respond because BT is not accepting the forwarded mail and we have no other method of accessing it.
Help, please.
It looks like we are losing all mail currently sent to those addresses - some of which may be significant business mail that we can't afford to lose.
I really don't want to have to change all my various email addresses (one personal, one business and one hobby-related) to the new BT one. I have 2400 names in my address book. Changing addresses would just add to the nightmare.
I feel particularly p155ed off because one of the questions I asked before moving to BT was whether BT accepted domain name addresses forwarded from Freeparking and was told that it wlouldn't be a problem.
Just as amatter of note, I did call the BT help centre and was told that since my main BT address was working (i.e. receiving and sending direct emails) they had neither the obligation nor the training to solve the domain name problem. Well done BT.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

birdsedge wrote:
We've just moved over to BT broadband after 17 years with Demon. I have three email addresses - [email protected] and name at mydomainname.co.uk etc - which I have now pointed to my new btinternet.com address, but after three days of chasing my own tail none of my email is arriving in my BT mailbox.
Our domain names are hosted by Freeparking. We don't have mailboxes there. The mail has previously been forwarded to our Demon account successfully - different domain names frowarding to different underlying demon addresses.
Freeparking indicates that it takes about ten minutes to propagate the forwarding change, so after three days i think I can say that I've given it every opportunity. I don't think the problem is with Freeparking's forwarding. I think it's with BT.
Now, the thing is, besides my three addresses which are not forwarding successfully, there's another domain name address (belonging to my husband) which IS forwarding successfully from Freeparking to BT, but this just happens to be the address we gave to BT as a contact email prior to the changeover from Demon.
My husband thinks this all may be something to do with grey-listing and that the reason the three domain names are not being accepted at BT is something to do with the fact that the addresses have not been verified as legitimate. Unfortunately it seems that the only way they can be verified as a legitimate address is by receiving and returning a verification mail from BT. Which is where our circular logic finally disappears up its own tail-feathers. We can't receive and respond because BT is not accepting the forwarded mail and we have no other method of accessing it.
Help, please.
It looks like we are losing all mail currently sent to those addresses - some of which may be significant business mail that we can't afford to lose.
I really don't want to have to change all my various email addresses (one personal, one business and one hobby-related) to the new BT one. I have 2400 names in my address book. Changing addresses would just add to the nightmare.
I feel particularly p155ed off because one of the questions I asked before moving to BT was whether BT accepted domain name addresses forwarded from Freeparking and was told that it wlouldn't be a problem.
Just as amatter of note, I did call the BT help centre and was told that since my main BT address was working (i.e. receiving and sending direct emails) they had neither the obligation nor the training to solve the domain name problem. Well done BT.
Hi. Welcome to the forums.
Address verification is not actually needed with respect to forwarding of emails.
Do you have another email address (e.g. hotmail, gmail etc) that you can forward one of the email addresses to ? This can help check it's workiing, despite the other domain working ok.
Forgive me for asking, but can you check that the email you're forwarding to is correctly spelt with numbers, periods etc in the right place - it is easy to make a mistake!
Have you checked the Spam folder in webmail in case all the emails have ended up there ?
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Dear Experts,
Admin, please rederict if this is the wrong forum.
I need to set up a FQDN for our one host demo system running on Windows Server 2k3. How do I set it up (without compromizing our system)? On this host we have ECC 6.0 and GRC running.
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Kind Regards,
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/default_host/sap/bc/bsp/sap/system
/default_host/sap/bc/bsp/sap/public/bc
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/default_host/sap/public/bc/ur
/default_host/sap/public/bsp/sap/public
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see:
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Steve,
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